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'An aphorism, properly stamped and molded, has not been "deciphered" when it has simply been read; rather one has then to begin its interpretation, for which is required an art of interpretation.' -- Nietzsche, 'On the Genealogy of Morals'
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- Focuault:space and history
In an early article Foucault makes a few programmatic and largely suggestive remarks that the traditional idea that time is creative and progressive, while space is static, could be reversed: The great obsession of the nineteenth century was, as we know, history: with its themes of development and of suspension,... - Nietzsche: free spirits
From 'Token of Higher and Lower Culture' in Nietzsche's Human, All too Human The free spirit a relative concept. A man is called a free spirit if he thinks otherwise than would be expected, based on his origin, environment, class, and position, or based on prevailing contemporary views. He is...
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new post...- desire + repression
A quote form Ellen Willis that resonates: Americans take for granted a level of sexual freedom, and a degree of choice in personal style and conduct and expression, that didn't exist before the '60s. The variety of food, fashion, pop-music genres, cable TV programs, the mixing and matching of cultures... - Deleuze: transcendental empiricism
I find this review of Matthew Kieran (ed.), Debates in Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art by Jenefer Robinson is interesting because it spells out the core of an empiricist aesthetics. I guess an empiricist aesthetics is contrasted to the standard interpretation of the Kantian notion that aesthetic appreciation is... - Deleuze: actualization of the virtual
Deleuze ends his discussion of the actualization of the virtual in Difference and Repetition: Actualisation takes place in three series: space, time and also consciousness. Every spatio-temporal dynamism is accompanied by the emergence of an elementary consciousness which itself traces directions, doubles movements and migrations, and is born on the... - Foucault: care for self
In the beginning to Senecan Moods: Foucault and Nietzsche on the Art of the Self in Foucault Studies Michael Ure states that: The sober, dispassionate style of Nietzscheâs middle works and Foucaultâs late works signpost their return to the conception of the philosophical life and practice that dominated philosophy from... - art +instrumental reason
As we have seen in this earlier post Levinas argues that artistic representation allows us to step back and see things outside of their functional locations in the economic world. We are forced to thematize the represented objects in ways that are new. This is not necessarily a disinterested and... - Levinas: aesthetics+ ethics
What is the connection between aesthetics and Levinasâ ethical phenomenology? Are they related? Separate? For Levinas, the ethical imperative precedes cognition, and the primary task of philosophy is explaining the difficulty regarding the non-violent relationship to the Other. The face of the human Other â the living second person capable... - Levinas+aesthetics
I just come across Colloguy that is hosted by Monash University in Australia. Originally a print journal, it is now an online one, and it is a response by Monash University postgraduates to the need for a forum for postgraduate debate. The aim of the journal is to 'provide an... - personal interlude
just to lighten things up for a moment: Gary Sauer-Thompson, Robe, 2006... - Adorno: Art and irrationality
I want to return to Amresh Sinha's Adorno on Mimesis in Aesthetic Theory that I posted on here about art's dilemma of regression to magic and surrender of the mimetic impulse to thinglike rationality. Referring to the task of critique in Adorno's doctrine of mimesis Sinha says: Art is without... - Language, Sexuality and Subversion
Courtesy of Glenn over at Event Mechanics I came across Adrian Martin, in an interview in Cinemascope Issue 7. He is talking about how to be truly critical, in a world that silences or castrates critique? He answers this from the perspective of a film culture: Of course, we all...
